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Are there any technical/performance reasons why I couldn’t create an instance for myself and host a Plex server off of the same machine at home?

I’m fairly new to self-hosting in general, so any insight would be appreciated!

EDIT: I completely forgot to mention that this would be for a Mastodon instance, not for Lemmy.

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lol Wat.

Op, just budget 200gb for lemmy and you'll be fine. Our entire lemmy.ca server is only using 100gb. It'll be a good learning experience!

Also, check out jellyfin as a possible alternative to plex.

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I should have specified that I was interested in creating a Mastodon instance, not Lemmy, but I’m glad to know that I could do that should I want to build one.

I’ve looked into Jellyfin as a secondary service. At the moment my parents have gotten used to navigating Plex and having them re-learn something new over the phone is…not something I have the energy or time for lol

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't all the federated images take up a shit ton of space?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Images aren't federated, but their thumbnails are stored in your instance. You can prune those though as needed.